A WRITER AT WAR
Author(s): GROSSMAN VASILY
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the "Red Star," the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. "A Writer at War" depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more.
Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a gripping narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions --at once unflinching and sensitive -- we have ever had of what Grossman called "the ruthless truth of war."
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"A first-rate volume of war reporting that belongs with the best work of writers like Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling and John Hersey. . . . Convey[s] the taste, the smell and the sounds of the front lines."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Overwhelmingly powerful. [Grossman's] combination of passion and detail, of patriotic fervor and journalistic objectivity, makes "A Writer at War" one of the greatest documents of World War II."--"The New York Sun"
"Gripping...[has] the immediacy of eyewitness observation, but also the novelist's sensitivity to the men and women whose lives and deaths he was recording."--"The Boston Globe"
"Excellent...Grossman, like Isaac Babel twenty years before him, lifts war correspondence to new heights."--"Literary Review"
General Fields
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.422
- : 203mm X 132mm X 24mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 416
- : Paperback / softback
- : GROSSMAN VASILY
